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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID B. ALLEN AND EDVARD K. WARREN, iOF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN.

WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,974, atea January 3,1888.

` Y Application tiled July l2.1887. Serial No.-2l4,08l. (No model.)

more elastic material is placed as near the ex-.

terior surface of the whip as convenient, for the purpose of more effectually resisting the strain when using or bending the whip, which strain is much more severe upon the surface than toward the center of the whip. An efficient description of whip having this object in view, and which also provides for using a solid center or core proper of inferior material and vstill produces a very serviceable whip, is shown and described in an application for patent for a Whip-core, Serial No. 228,208, by E. K. Warren, filed February 19, 1887, and our invention in a measure resembles it.

VIn the whip-core of Warren, however, here referred to, the whip-center was formed of a core having longitudinal grooves in its exterior surface, and cords, which constitute the superior or stronger material, inserted within said grooves to add to the strengthof the core, the Whip being afterward finished in the usual or any suitable manner-as,for instance,by stocking it with the usual side pieces and subsequently putting the whole into a lathe and turning it round4 and tapering it, and then inclosing it by a plaited cover and coating of suitable material or otherwise.

Our invention accomplishes like ends ina different manner or by a different construction. Thus we cut or groovethestocking orside pieces of the whip on their under or innersides, and

insert or lay within said cut surfaces or grooves the stiffening cords or blades outside ofthe center piece or core proper, and so bring the superior or stronger material very close to the exterior surface of the whip.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel represents a short length of one of the siding-pieces of a whip, as seen from its under or inner "side, and showing the groove, which may be of any desired size a'nd shape,

ready to receive the stiffening cord or blade within it. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same, with the piece or pieces of stiffening material secured within the longitudinal groove ofthe siding-piece. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal exterior view showing the grooved siding-pieces having the stiening cords or blades within them when or after the whole are placed about the central core, and Fig. 4 shows a partly-broken iinished longitudinal portion ofthe whip. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are transverse sections of the parts and 'constructions illustrated in Figs. l, 2, and 3 A indicates the central core or inner body n* part, which may be made of any suitable material, including whalebone and rattan.

B B are the siding-strips, which are placed and gluedor secured as usual, or in any suitable manner, about or around the core A, as whip-cores have before been stocked, for instance. These siding-strips B B, which may be made of rattan or any other suitable mate rial, have longitudinal recesses,cuts,or grooves b, of any desired size and shape, made in their under or inner sides, into which are'inserted, .as by gluing and tying, or otherwise, cords or blades C, of feather-bone, whalebone, horn,

steel, rubber, leather, wire, or textile or other suitable stiffening material adapted to give strength or elasticity to the whip. These stift'- ening cords or blades C, of which there may be any number'in each groove or recess bwe insert in the siding-strips B before building up the latter around the central core, A, after which the whole is turned on the exterior, as

usual, and so that a large or greater portion of Y the siding'is turned away, as shown in Fig. 7, leaving the stiftening cords or blades C near the outer surface ofthe whip. The entirewhip Inay'then be finished on the exterior with a covering, c, as usual, or otherwise.

The construction of the Whip, as described, y

provides for placing the strengthening or elastic filling cords or blades of the whip almost at the extreme surface thereof, where the best ICO possible results may be secured, and, if desired,

an inferior core or center may be used.

Having thus described our invention, what y we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The separate siding stri ps or pieces of the whip, having longitudinal grooves or recesses in their inner surfaces, in combination with n series of independent stifening cords or blades separatelyinserted and secured within each of said grooved o1` recessed portions of the sidio ing-strips, essentially as described.

2. ln a whip, the combination of the cen- 1 tml core, A, the siding strips or pieces B, built around said core, and having longitudinal grooves oi' recesses in theirinner surfaces, and stiifening cords or blades C, inserted with- 15 in said grooved siding-strips outside of the central core, substantially as speoied.

' DAVID B. ALLEN.

EDWARD K. VARREN. Witnesses:

JAMES H. HATFIELD, HENRY CHAMBERLAIN. 

